Rebecca Goldstein’s fiction explores “the dichotomies between mind and body, intellect and passion, logos and eros,” according to one New York Times reviewer. A professor of philosophy, a MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Goldstein is the author of several novels, including The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and Mazel. She is also the author of the nonfiction biographies Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel and Betraying Spinoza. In 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Goldstein combines fiction and philosophy to tell the story of Cass Seltzer, an atheist who must reexamine religion’s place in his life when his novel becomes a surprise bestseller.